Show fhet Garfield Letter Chicago 20The Tribune There are some curious facts connected with the publication of the GarfieldEosecrans letter that should be borne in mind The letter first saw the light in the New York Sun The editor of the Sun is a warm personal friend of Conkling A brother o f the exsenator is xi stockholder in the paper and it has uniformally de fondedthe conduct of the superb Roscoe The letter was addressed to Governor Chase It was preserved amjng his papers pa-pers and those pipers were inherited tv his daughter Kite Chase Spragae Now by what means did the letter find its way into the New York Sun The merits of the controversy aroused by the letter need not be entered into but the manner of its publication would seem to show a deliberate attempt has been made to blacken the memory ot Garfield l and discredit Gtrfieldism Hence it is important im-portant to know how that publication was orocurd The defense made of the letter by G rfields frieuds in Washington Washing-ton is that the facts set forth were tru that the letter was confidential and addressed to a personal friend that it nrrJe no appeal to anybody in authority < ver Eo = ecrans but was precisely pre-cisely suet v letter as thousands of a my officers wei constantly writing home to their frien 3 under the seal of strict privacy pri-vacy These defenders of Garfields memory insert that it is not anything to charge want of patriotism upon him for writing wbat teems on its face to be a patriotic letter It is sufficient to notice hat the manner of the publication of the letter subjects to suspicion of haying been aimed at the memory of a dead man by a malignant personal I enemy |